07 June 2014

Daniel Whitlock is
terrified of going to sleep. And rightly so: he sleepwalks, with no
awareness or memory of his actions. Including burning down Kenny
Cooper’s house—with Kenny inside it—after Kenny brutally beat him for
being gay. Back in the tiny town of Logan after serving his prison
sentence, Daniel isolates himself in a cabin in the woods and chains
himself to his bed at night.

Like the rest of Logan, local cop
Joe Belman doesn’t believe Daniel’s absurd defense. But when Bel saves
Daniel from a retaliatory fire, he discovers that Daniel might not be
what everyone thinks: killer, liar, tweaker, freak. Bel agrees to
control Daniel at night—for the sake of the other townsfolk. Daniel’s
fascinating, but Bel’s not going there.

Yet as he’s drawn further
into Daniel’s dark world, Bel finds that he likes being in charge. And
submitting to Bel gives Daniel the only peace he’s ever known. But
Daniel’s demons won’t leave him alone, and he’ll need Bel’s help to slay
them once and for all—assuming Bel is willing to risk everything to
stand by him.

When I started reading
this book, I had a pretty good idea as to where the story was going. But as I progressed
further into the story I was completely caught off guard with how the story
played out, and what ended up happening!This book is one that does go down in the books to remind us to never judge
a book by its cover, or blurb. I can say that this writing duo has a really
great ability to bring the words from the pages and drag you into their
stories.

It was so insane
reading about the things that Daniel would do to himself because he was afraid of
sleeping, and there were times where it felt like my heart was breaking for him
because of what he was going through. I can’t imagine doing what he had to do,
even during the times he was awake, because of something that he can’t control.
Bel’s character was one that I wanted to hate, and at times I did, but in the
end I ended up realizing how great of a guy he was throughout the story.
Granted, he had his bad qualities, but who doesn’t.

This story line
is one that I haven’t actually read about before, but I can say that I think
Ms. Rock and Ms. Henry have done an amazing job writing this book. There was
tons of information that they added that helped to make the story better, and
just the overall flow of the story was extremely well done.

I do hope that at
some point in the future we will get a little tease as to how Daniel and Bel
are doing with their new lives. I think that it would be great to see what they
end up doing.